👑Following her divorce, Victoria Melita struggled emotionally but things got much worse when she took it out on her daughter Elisabeth’s nurse. Grand Duchess Maria wrote to her daughter Crown Princess Marie of Romania:
‘Now comes all the bitter, bitter disappointment. The evidence that she had blundered, had made mistake upon mistake and through it has never been able to have real friends who will stick to her in need. Neither amongst her suite or even her servants. ...She gave me a terrible fright about a week ago, as she went into a shameful fit of unbounded fury against Wilson about some letter from Darmstadt, mentioning her jewels. She began to scream in such a way that actually the whole of the servants rushed upstairs. She slapped Wilson and tore at her hair and made a dart at a big lamp to throw it at her head. Wilson just had time to seize it and carry it out of the room. Frightened maids rushed into my room to fetch me as the saving angel and I found her crying, but the first fury over. Everybody was trembling and quite pale.... You know that she could have killed Wilson with the greatest ease.’
📸: RCT ©️ King Charles III
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Citation - Marie, Duchess of Coburg to Crown Princess Marie of Romania, 12 February 1902 quoted in Zeepvat, C. (2006) ‘Her Only Crime’, in From Cradle to Crown British Nannies and Governesses at the worlds royal courts. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing, p. 167.
